Sam Quotes

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it’s a little bit of a witches’ brew. I completely think I’m capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

I'm English. And I don't have tan skin or blond hair or green eyes.

I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

It's just after I walked away from my addictions and the things that I struggled with, that's when I chose Jesus Christ and now he helps me and guides me through the rest of my life.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Thank God he wasn't the St. Louis Rams' coach. I have a lot of respect for Coach Dungy and like everyone in America, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

Lynn, my wife, would very much appreciate if I had a talent for anything besides music.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.

You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.